Forever and forever and forever
I bow in reverence to the white cloud.
Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?
In a universe animated by the interaction of yin (female) and yang (male) energies, the moon was literally yin visible. Indeed, it was the very germ or source of yin, and the sun was its yang counterpart.
The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.
The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.